Fire Quotes - Page 29

• Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Mother, Men, Blood

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• Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!

  Gertrude Atherton

  Opportunity, Thinking, Differences

  Gertrude Atherton (1925). “The Crystal Cup”

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• Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Grief, Loss, Men

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.228, tredition

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• I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches and beside dying fires in one-room houses, a history of great-grandparents and of slavery and of the days following slavery; of those who lived still not free, yet who would not let their spirits be enslaved.

  Mildred D. Taylor

  Book, Grandparent, History

  Mildred D. Taylor (2004). “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.10, Penguin

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• Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.

  Dorothy Norman

  Fear, Loss, Greed

  Dorothy Norman (1969). “The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol”, Anchor Books

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• When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire.

  Suetonius

  Future, Earth

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• May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May our images honor the ordinary endeavors of common people, and may they make their way to the eyes of the weary - light to the dark, fire to the chill.

  Jan Phillips

  Eye, Dark, Light

  Jan Phillips, Cathy Conheim, Christine Forester, Circle of Women (2000). “A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call”, Breakthru Press

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• Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue. Find out all the facts and stamp out the fire. Demystify.

  Tobsha Learner

  Flames, Sparks, Facts

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• Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a black and horrible tempest. In its mid-region, where it is neither too little to be motive nor too furious to be ungovernable, it has usefulness. For all feeling is as fuel, and where there is none life has no fire, and then no flame of ascent.

  James Vila Blake

  Anger, Passion, Clouds

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• I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Song, War, Eye

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”

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• There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire on their heads.

  Francis Alexander Durivage

  Christian, Revenge, Forgiving

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• Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Love Is, Play, Loyal

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• Judge not that ye be judged; we carried the torch to the goal.
  The goal is won: guard the fire: it is yours: but remember our soul.
  Breathes through the life that we saved, when our lives went out in the night:
  Your body is woven of ours: see that the torch is alight.

  Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien

  Night, Goal, Judging

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• Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  Pain, Giving, Arms

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.37

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• You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

  Jennifer Stone

  Passion, Poetry, Mind

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• Sometimes no matter how well you prepare, no matter how conservative your decision making, no matter how few Y chromosomes are along on your trip, you can still find yourself in a mud slide or a hurricane without a dry piece of clothing to your name. But those of us who have given our time and usually our hearts to outdoorsmen over the years know that, for many of them, it's not really a wilderness trip unless, MacGyver-like, they have to make a fire out of a pair of shorts, a glow stick, and a ketchup bottle; it's not really an adventure until someone gets airlifted out.

  Pam Houston

  Adventure, Heart, Years

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• Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

  Vance Havner

  Preacher, Ought, Sermons

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• Some ministers preach from notes and some don't. They have argued about it for centuries. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Two Welsh preachers were on their way to a meeting. One noticed that the other carried written outlines. 'Ah,' he remonstrated, 'you cannot carry fire on paper.' 'True,' replied his companion, 'but you can use paper to start a fire!'

  Vance Havner

  Men, Two, Mind

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• Whenever problems seem to get the best of me, whenever I feel them closing in on me, I go to a quiet place that lies somewhere in my soul. I do not reason, analyze or think. Those will come later. I simply go. From this place of silence, I garner strength and inspiration to stand firm in the face of fire, to be calm in the midst of thunder. When I emerge, the world has not changed, but I have. And in changing, a whole new world is born.

  John Harricharan

  Lying, Inspiration, Thinking

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• It is natural for the immature to harm others.
  Getting angry with them is like resenting a fire for burning.

  Shantideva

  Immature, Burning, Natural

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• A productive coaching relationship begins with two people with fires in their bellies: one who wants desperately to move forward and another who yearns to help that person make the journey.

  James A. Belasco

  Moving, Journey, Two

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• For me, passion means whatever a person is willing to suffer for.'Apostolic passion,' therefore, is a deliberate, intentional choice to live for the worship of Jesus in the nations. It has to do with being committed to the point of death to spreading His glory. It's the quality of those who are on fire for Jesus, who dream of the whole earth being covered with the Glory of the Lord.

  Floyd McClung

  Dream, Jesus, Passion

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• There's not a European country the Jews haven't been thrown out of. When it happens that many times, it's not just persecution. THERE'S NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE.

  Mark Collett

  Country, Persecution, Jew

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• When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.

  Judy Garland

  Islands, Rainbow, Singing

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• I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.

  Bette Davis

  Ifs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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